Château
A château (plural châteaux; French pronunciation: ​[ʃɑto]
in both cases) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor
or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without
fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in
French-speaking regions.[1]Contents1 Definition
2 Concept
3 French châteaux3.1 Loire Valley
3.2 Vaux-le-Vicomte
3.3
ChâteauChâteau de Chenonceau
3.4 Dampierre-en-Yvelines
3.5 Versailles
3.6 Bordeaux4 See also
5 References
6 External linksDefinition[edit]
The word "chateau" is a French word that has entered the English
language, where its meaning is more specific than it is in French. The
French word "chateau" denotes buildings as diverse as a medieval
fortress, a Renaissance palace and a 19th-century country house. Care
should therefore be taken when translating the French word château
into English, noting the nature of the building in question
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Louise Of Savoy
Louise of
SavoySavoy (11 September 1476 – 22 September 1531) was a French
noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of
Nemours, and the mother of King Francis I. She was politically active
and served as the
RegentRegent of France in 1515, in 1525–1526 and in
1529.Contents1 Family and early life
2 Marriage
3 Widowed and motherhood
4 Mother of the King4.1 The Bourbon inheritance
4.2 Regent5 Death
6 Portrayal in television
7 Ancestors
8 References
9 SourcesFamily and early life[edit]
Louise of
SavoySavoy was born at Pont-d'Ain, the eldest daughter of Philip
II, Duke of
SavoySavoy and his first wife, Margaret of Bourbon. Her
brother, Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, succeeded her father as ruler of
the duchy and head of the House of Savoy
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Colin Biart
Colin Biart, also called Colin Biard, Nicolas Biart or Colin Byart or
Nicolas Byart, was a French master mason, master builder, and
architect, born in
AmboiseAmboise in 1460, active until 1515.Contents1 Biography
2 References2.1 Bibliography3 External linksBiography[edit]
Biart married at
BeaugencyBeaugency in 1479. He started working in Amboise
where he participated in the realization of the sets for the entrance
of Margaret of Austria.
He also worked at the Château d'
AmboiseAmboise (1495–1496) with Guillaume
Senault
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Italianate Architecture
The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase
in the history of Classical architecture.
In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of
16th-century Italian
RenaissanceRenaissance architecture, which had served as
inspiration for both
PalladianismPalladianism and Neoclassicism, were synthesised
with picturesque aesthetics. The style of architecture that was thus
created, though also characterised as "Neo-Renaissance", was
essentially of its own time. "The backward look transforms its
object,"
Siegfried Giedion wrote of historicist architectural
styles;[2] "every spectator at every period—at every moment,
indeed—inevitably transforms the past according to his own nature."
The Italianate style was first developed in Britain about 1802 by John
Nash, with the construction of
CronkhillCronkhill in Shropshire
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Pacello Da MercoglianoPacello da Mercogliano (c. 1455–1534) was a designer of gardens and
hydraulic engineer, who is documented as working for Charles VIII at
Amboise with the responsibility of bringing water from the
LoireLoire up to
the garden parterres laid out to one side of the château. He was
assisting the architect-engineer Fra Giocondo, who had translated
Frontinus's essay on the ancient aqueducts of Rome, De aquis urbae
Romanae
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Parterre
A parterre is a formal garden constructed on a level substrate,
consisting of plant beds, typically in symmetrical patterns, which are
separated and connected by paths. The borders of the plant beds may be
formed with stone or tightly pruned hedging, and their interiors may
be planted with flowers or other plants or filled with mulch or
gravel. The paths are constituted with gravel or turf grass.
French parterres originated in the gardens of the French Renaissance
of the 15th century and often had the form of knot gardens. Later,
during the 17th century
BaroqueBaroque era, they became more elaborate and
stylised
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Louis XII Of France
Louis XII (27 June 1462 – 1 January 1515) was a monarch of the House
of Valois who ruled as
King of FranceKing of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of
Naples from 1501 to 1504. The son of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and
Maria of Cleves, he succeeded his cousin Charles VIII, who died
without a closer heir in 1498.
Before his accession to the throne of France, he was known as Louis of
Orléans and was compelled to be married to his disabled and
supposedly sterile cousin Joan by his second cousin, King Louis XI. By
doing so, Louis XI hoped to extinguish the Orléans cadet branch of
the House of Valois.[1][2]
Louis of Orléans was one of the great feudal lords who opposed the
French monarchy in the conflict known as the Mad War. At the royal
victory in the Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier in 1488, Louis was
captured, but Charles VIII pardoned him and released him
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Parterres
A parterre is a formal garden constructed on a level substrate,
consisting of plant beds, typically in symmetrical patterns, which are
separated and connected by paths. The borders of the plant beds may be
formed with stone or tightly pruned hedging, and their interiors may
be planted with flowers or other plants or filled with mulch or
gravel. The paths are constituted with gravel or turf grass.
French parterres originated in the gardens of the French Renaissance
of the 15th century and often had the form of knot gardens. Later,
during the 17th century
BaroqueBaroque era, they became more elaborate and
stylised
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Bosquet
In the French formal garden, a bosquet (French, from Italian bosco,
"grove, wood") is a formal plantation of trees, at least five of
identical species planted as a quincunx, or set in strict regularity
as to rank and file, so that the trunks line up as one passes along
either face. Symbolic of order in a humanized and tamed Gardens of the
French Renaissance and
BaroqueBaroqueGarden à la françaiseGarden à la française landscape, the
bosquet is an analogue of the orderly orchard, an amenity that has
been intimately associated with pleasure gardening from the earliest
Persian gardens of the Achaemenids.A bosquet in the gardens of
Schönbrunn PalaceSchönbrunn Palace in Vienna. It is shaped
like a fan and therefore is called "der Fächer" in German
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Fra Giocondo
Giovanni Giocondo, Order of Friars Minor, (c. 1433 – 1515) was an
Italian friar, architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical
scholar.Contents1 Biography
2 Architectural works
3 Published works
4 References
5 Bibliography
6 External linksBiography[edit]
Giovanni GiocondoGiovanni Giocondo was born in
VeronaVerona around 1433. He joined the
Dominican OrderDominican Order at the age of eighteen and was one of the many of that
Order who promulgated the Renaissance. Afterwards, however, he left
the Dominicans and entered the Franciscan Order. Giocondo began his
career as a teacher of
LatinLatin and Greek in Verona, where Julius Caesar
Scaliger was one of his pupils.
As a young priest,
FriarFriar Giovanni was a learned archaeologist and a
superb draughtsman
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